3.30pm
First Keynote:  Research – Critical Tool for Self Empowerment

Dr Jeannie Herbert, Director, Batchelor Institute

4.10pm
Second Keynote:  Indigenous Self Determination in Research:  The interview as collaborative storying

Prof Russell Bishop, Foundation Professor and Assistant Dean for Maori Education, School of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

4.55pm
Facilitated Group Discussion

Dr Lyn Fasoli and Robyn Ober

5.15pm
End of day one

THURSDAY JULY 12

8.30am
Coffee & chat

9.00am
Third Keynote:  Multimedia/Intermedia Strategies as an Indigenous dissemination tool for practice-based research

Dr Sandy O’Sullivan, Project Manager – Online Presence, Batchelor Institute

9.45am
Panel of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island researchers share stoeis about their journeys through postgraduate studies

Facilitator:  John Reid

10.30am
Morning tea

11.00am
Workshops

1.  Using multimedia/intermediation as dissemination tool – Dr Sandy O’Sullivan

2.  What do we mean when we say we are “doing Indigenous research”? – Tahnia Edwards, Reseracher and Educator, Centre for Remote Health, Alice Springs, Flinders University

3.  Preparing to undertake participatory research within Indigenous communities – Yvonne Cadet-James, Head of School of Indigenous Australian Studies, James Cook University

12.30pm
Lunch

1.30pm
Concurrent Sessions

1: Lyndon Reilly, Health Equalities Promotion Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Queensland

Title:  North Queensland Health Equalities Promotion Unit’s Quantitative and Qualitative Research Projects Enmeshed in the Principles of the Family Well-Being Empowerment Program

2:  Dr Veronica Arbon

Title:  Indigenous Research – Aboriginal knowledge creation

2.15pm
Afternoon tea

2.45pm
Concurrent Sessions

1: Dr Laura Brearley, RMIT University

Title:   The Cross-Institutional Indigenous Research Project: A Proposal for a Collaborative Approach to the Development of Indigenous Researchers

2:  Michelle Dickson, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University , NSW

Title:  Locating yourself in research – journeying with curiosity and creating ways of researching that feel right, feel good!

3: Robyn Ober & Melodie Bat, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

Title:  Defining ‘both-ways’ and translating it into Batchelor Institute Practice

3.30pm
Concurrent Sessions

1: Sarah Holcombe, Kate Lawrence and Margaret Orr

Title:  Desert Knowledge CRC and Waltja Research Nintiringtjaku collaboration

2: Gina Milgate and Nola Purdie, Australian Council for Educational Research

Title: Building Indigenous Capacity: The ACER Story

4.15pm
Participatory Feedback Session

5.00pm
Networking and a special performance

7.00pm
Forum Dinner featuring Shellie Morris

9.30pm
Dinner ends

FRIDAY JULY 13

8.30AM
Coffee & chat

8.45am
Fourth Keynote:  Empowering Research with Indigenous Communities

Pat Dudgeon, Head of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University

10.15am
Morning tea

10.30am
Fifth Keynote:  From consumers to creators – the importance of getting your work published

Assoc. Professor Tony McMahon, Department of Social Work and Community Welfare, James Cook University

11.30am
Participatory Action Session to provide feedback/solutions to issues raised

Facilitator – Yvonne Cadet-James

12.30pm
Lunch